The larger part of the articles are investigations carried out by Russian scientists at Spitsbergen. Areas of concentration range from observations of the ionospheric electron density to the study of archeological remains that show an early Russian presence in the archipelago.

The Arctic and Antarctic regions became an area of conflicting interests of several countries: Australia, Canada, Norway, Russia, the USA, etc. This is the seventh volume of the recent Polar geological, chemical, biological, and environmental studies of the Arctic and Antarctic regions by Russian scholars.

The Artic and Antarctic regions became an area of conflicting interests of several countries: Australia, Canada, Norway, Russia, the USA, etc. This is the sixth volume of the recent Polar geological, chemical, biological, and environmental studies of the Artic and Antarctic regions by Russian scholars.